Features & Design

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Whether you choose to display your Alienware X51 vertically on your desk as a token of victory or horizontally to optimize your gaming space, you’ll have more than enough performance to satisfy your gaming needs.

Gaming, movies and other images jump off the screen with the optional powerful NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960 graphics card, Full HD, 3D and Blu-ray capabilities of the Alienware X51. For those seeking a system that can handle high-performance video and audio content creation, look no further than Alienware X51.

Play your way, now and in the future. With the ability to upgrade standard desktop components, Alienware X51 is engineered to help you boost your gaming and entertainment experience at any time and dominate games well into the future. For your real-time modifications, Alienware X51 is armed with Wi-Fi and ample front and rear I/O ports (including a total of 8 USB ports ) to provide complete peripheral customization to fit your very own winning strategy.

The key to any victory is preparation. With the Alienware X51, you can now play any game you want with the high-performance 4th Gen Intel® Core™ processors, powerful graphics up to 175 W, PCI-Express x16, and storage you need to overwhelm your opponents now and into the future.

The optional GeForce® GTX™ 960 delivers incredible performance, power efficiency, and cutting-edge gaming technologies that only NVIDIA Maxwell™ technology can offer. This is the perfect upgrade to advanced gaming, letting you dominate the competition with 60% faster performance and twice the power efficiency than previous-generation cards*.

The Alienware X51 is a powerful PC ready to not only take on your fiercest gaming challenges, but whatever else comes your way. Email, shopping and social networking are a breeze on the X51.

Bring your Alienware X51 to life with AlienFX™ and experience another level of immersion with Alienware’s exclusive in-game lighting technology that provides lighting effects to alert gamers of specific in-game events and special effects. 100+ games and apps support AlienFX™ today.

Advance in your journey with confidence when equipped with the Alienware X51 and its perfect balance of high performance and compact size.

Take control of the game. And feel the intensity. The redesigned Alienware Command Center 4.0 lets you choose lighting and special effects, accelerate your gaming performance, monitor in-game results, and more — all in one hub.

Launch games your way with personalized shortcuts in Game Mode, maximize performance with the new Accelerator feature, and keep an eye on resource consumption with Performance Monitoring. Find Out More

AlienFX

Create custom lighting and special effects to suit your unique gaming style. Apply 20 different colors to 3 different zones for 8,000 color combinations. Find Out More

AlienFusion

Access your system’s power-management controls so you can decide when you need maximum performance or when to scale back for more everyday programs. Find Out More

The chart above shows how far the performance has evolved on the Alienware X51 from its first generation launch on January 2012 to the current generation. Using 3DMark 2011 Extreme as a benchmark, you can see how the overall gaming performance has increased by up to 467%.

We’ve taken some of the key configurations offered and collected the 3DMark Vantage CPU benchmark scores and 3DMark for Windows Fire Strike scores to show a comparison of how performance increases by configuration with a focus on CPUs and GPUs, respectively.

Using some of the major titles out there today like Bioshock Infinite and Tomb Raider we were able to use their built-in benchmark tools to measure how many frames per second the Alienware X51 can generate using the key configurations. Even with our lowest end configuration, the Alienware X51 can produce up to 41 frames per second at a resolution of 1920 x 1200.

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